Abdush Shakoor @MegaColorBoy

A backend engineer asked me why I recommend Fundamentals of Data Engineering for backend folks. Because most backend engineers accidentally become data engineers the moment their API hits production. Backend = owns writes. Data Engineering = owns reads. But both eat the same consequences when the data sucks. If you learn Data Engineering fundamentals, you level up faster because you stop treating data as “someone else’s problem.” You get better at: - Designing schemas that won’t break downstream - Shipping clean, traceable events (no dual-write disasters) - Thinking in batch vs. streaming trade-offs - Debugging data issues faster than “blame analytics” - Building APIs that scale with actual usage patterns Backend without data fundamentals = “the feature works” Backend with data fundamentals = “the business trusts what you build” The short answer: Most backend engineers only understand half the system. This book helps you finally see the whole thing.

5 GitHub repos that will automate your daily life. All free. All open source. All doing work you currently do manually every single day.

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Things every performative senior software Engineer needs

🔗 GitHub: github.com/neonwatty/mach… --- ✉️ If you’re into AI, ML, agents, and building real systems, join my newsletter (it’s free): dankornas.substack.com

Learning Linux builds practical skills that can help in system administration, #cybersecurity, cloud computing, networking, and #DevOps. Here is a roadmap for learning #Linux 😎👇 Find pdf ebooks with all my Linux infographics at study-notes.org

the Atlassian engineer who was laid off dropped a full guide to becoming a senior engineer after 15 years in the industry Vasilios Syrakis - no university degree. Made it to Senior Engineer anyway the things that actually worked: > taught himself Regex by mass-answering Stack Overflow until he became the expert people came to > learned Python for free, immediately built a DNS web interface and shipped it - didn't wait to feel ready > watched the same conference talks dozens of times until concepts actually stuck if he was starting from zero today: > get a CS degree - he skipped it and says that was a mistake > build a home Kubernetes cluster and try to sell what you make > grind LeetCode - not for the code, for the vocabulary to prompt Claude correctly > share everything publicly - the audience compounds faster than the skills > show up to meetups in person the one mindset shift that separates juniors from seniors: when you join a new team, write a deep analysis of how everything works before touching a single line of code > 15 years at the top of the industry and he still gets impostor syndrome so does everyone else who's actually good the roadmap is in the video 👇

Mr. Buzzoni @polydao

3 weeks ago

Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy what he revealed: > Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers >

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@trq212 I absolutely love this article and it was part of the inspiration for my take on personal software last year. leerob.com/personal-softw…

An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020) personal software was a bit early in 2020 but in 2026, it really can be as personal as a home cooked meal, or a handwritten letter robinsloan.com/notes/home-coo…

Want to get into backend development? - Build your own DNS - Build your own BitTorrent - Build your own Decentralized file system - Build your own Interpreter - Build your own kafka - Build your won web scraper - Build your own Redis - Build your own Database Engine - Build your own Distributed Job Queue - Build your own Search Engine - Build your own web server - Build your own Reverse Proxy - Build your own API gateway - Build your own Load Balancer - Build your own URL Shortener - Build your own CDN - Build your own Pub/Sub System - Build your own Task Scheduler - Build your own Email Service - Build your own File Storage Service - Build your own Logging System - Build your own Metrics/Monitoring System - Build your own Feature Flag System - Build your own Payment Gateway Mock - Build your own Rate Limiter - Build your own Notification System - Build your own WebSocket Server - Build your own OAuth Server - Build your own CI/CD Pipeline System

If you're trying to learn about databases, distributed systems, etc, it can be really helpful to follow @jyobo10. He keeps posting amazing resources (that I would love to find out where he gets them from). Definitely worth it.

Joe Sluis @jyobo10

5 days ago

If you're trying to learn about databases, distributed systems, etc, it can be really helpful to discuss papers with other people I've been attending a systems reading group for the last few months, and I've found that discussing a paper with others hammers it into my brain way

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Cutting Docker build size by ~99.8% (1.87 GB → 2.5 MB) Just using github.com/Kikobeats/untr… 😌

+++ Best place to learn with hands on labs. I absolutely recommend everyone to give it a try.

Ivan Velichko @iximiuz

4 days ago

LeetCode but for Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and Networking problems? 🤔 245 hands-on challenges (over half are free) based on real-world scenarios that come with: - Preconfigured environments - Automated verification - Hints and editorial solutions labs.iximiuz.com/challenges

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So many good recommendations here, and I would've never thought of #3 (despite using compound engineering all the time).

Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn

5 days ago

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The best way to understand how servers actually work is to write a couple of them from scratch. I prepared a series of exercises that help you get started with socket programming in C, Python, and Go: - Write a TCP client for a telemetry server labs.iximiuz.com/challenges/wri… - Write a TCP client for a chat server labs.iximiuz.com/challenges/wri… - Write a TCP echo server from scratch labs.iximiuz.com/challenges/wri… - Make one echo server work with both TCP and Unix sockets labs.iximiuz.com/challenges/wri… Happy hacking!

Chapter 8 of The Anatomy of Go is now available. It discusses channels, timers, concurrency, goroutine creation and lifecycle, runtime startup, preemption, scheduling, I/O handling, the system monitor... and a bunch of other things. The book is now complete at 873 pages, and early access will be closing soon after the editing phase, (which may add a few more pages). As usual, here is an excerpt:

Added 4 new Dream Blur Gradient backgrounds to the library. Free access below with 100+ backgrounds. ↓

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Ahmed Hassan @uihssn

2 weeks ago

Dreamblur Gradients for landing pages. Access my background library with 100+ backgrounds below. ↓

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idk who created this website, but it's awesome and i love it. sophon.at/papers

Backend Engineering Career Mastery Roadmap:From Beginner to Expert. Grab backend engineering ebook: codewithdhanian.gumroad.com/l/ungqng

One of the best books out there!

Clearly legendary programmer dropped their loot here damn